Telecommunications provider Norwood Systems has announced it will deliver value-added mobile network services to New Zealand telco Spark, in what the company is positioning as the first step in a strategy to provide its own network to telecom service providers.
Biotech company Zelira Therapeutics has received commitments to raise around $4.6 million from a share placement, while rent.com.au is planning an underwritten $2.9 million rights issue.
Investor services group Computershare will buy registered agent provider Corporate Creations for $142.9 million in a move to improve its reach in the US.
Dunsborough-based Nauti-Craft has taken a notable step toward commercialising its marine suspension technology in global markets after signing an agreement with Yanmar Shipbuilding & Engineering Co.
Nearmap shares sunk nearly 30 per cent after the aerial mapping company issued an earnings warning, saying it had lost two major clients in North America as mapping for the driverless car industry stalled.
BetterLabs Ventures, RAC's early stage seed fund, has become WA's largest venture capital fund with the announcement last night it had expanded to $23 million.
Edith Cowan University is aiming to capitalise on its existing cyber security expertise with the opening of a new $3 million security operations centre, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
East Perth-based startup Uno Group has announced a collaborative partnership with global research and analytics firm Nielsen, a major boost for a company that just two years ago worked its way thro
Wearable tech company Nuheara has secured $2.5 million from a New York-based institutional fund manager to support the commercialisation of its recently-released hearing device.
Technology company Track'em has secured a 12-month contract with Downer, which will use its cloud-based software for operations on an LNG asset in Western Australia.
Tech company Elsight has received commitments to raise $2.9 million from a share placement to Hong Kong-based investors, with the proceeds being used to fast-track sales of its flagship communications platform.
Virtual reality software firm Vection Technologies has signed a $500,000 deal to create modules for training students and dentists in dental procedures.
WA-raised tech startup Humm has raised US$2.6 million (AU$3.7 million) from US-based investors, to further aid in the commercialisation of its wearable Edge headband technology.
Perth-based tech startup Ecocentric Energy completed a successful round of equity crowdfunding last week, exceeding its stated minimum target to raise $500,000.
Nuheara has announced a direct-to-consumer retail partnership with US-based pharmacy chain Walgreens, with its smart hearing products the only of its sort available from the retailer.
A Perth biotech company founded by Nobel Prize winner Barry Marshall has secured a promise of $1 million in federal funding for the commercialisation of its acoustic belt for gut monitoring.
Western Australia-based ag-tech startup Origo.farm has received $375,000 in commercialisation funding as part of the federal government's Accelerating Commercialisation grant program.
The tech sector continues to shift through the gears as 2020 approaches, hurtling society towards an increasingly complex, digitised and mediated world.
OPINION: More than a decade after it entered the national debate, the national broadband network is about to be completed in the format – fibre to the node – that the reigning federal government committed to when Tony Abbott was prime minister.
Perth company Meercat, which counts some of Australia's largest businesses among its client base, is planning a global rollout of its RiskView software after being bought by Chicago-based VelocityEHS.
Bio-therapeutic company Orthocell has received commitments to raise $13 million from a share placement and up to a further $5 million from a share purchase plan, primarily to accelerate the commercialisation of its CelGro flagship product.
Robotic fish supported by machine learning are being developed to help rid WA waterways of invasive species, a project which illustrates the impact of the Forrest Fellowship program.
A move to use lasers to perfectly load rail cars is worth about $300 million to BHP and is an example of how the area around the town of Newman is world class in applying technology to resources.
